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Publications and Resources

Grassroots International and our partners produce a variety of publications to support our grantmaking for human rights and social change, promote education and advocacy efforts, and move more financial resources to promote global grassroots movements.

Through the Climate Justice Initiative campaign (CJI), Grassroots International is raising money to invest in community-led programs that boost climate resilience and provide critical support to movements that are leading the charge for climate justice. Learn more about what the CJI supports!

The MCP’s Creole Seeds Project seeks to rescue, reproduce and distribute heirloom (aka Creole) bean, corn and rice seeds that have been locally cultivated by generations of farmers for resiliency, adaptability, taste and appearance.

All people have the right to decide what they eat and to ensure that food in their community is healthy and accessible for everyone. This is the basic principle behind food sovereignty. If you want to support domestic food security...

Insights Spring 2016: Women in West Africa say “We are the Solution!” A new colonization is afoot in Africa. It’s a violent usurpation of lands and livelihoods, being perpetrated under the guise of agricultural development….Yet the people of these nations...

Last year, thousands gathered in New York City for the People’s Climate Justice Summit. Crowds swelled with energized, committed people, ready for action. One of those people was Miriam Miranda, whose words rang out over the murmuring masses: “What responsibility...

“Peasant farmers don’t produce commodities, they produce food. Peasant farming is the farming of hope.” That’s what Grassroots International’s partner in Brazil, Valdir Misnerovicz recently told us during a learning exchange. Grassroots International has played a critical role in standing...

Farmers have worked the rugged land in Western Africa for generations, moving seasonally from field to forest for food and livelihood. While life was never easy, the community worked together, in harmony with their surroundings, to provide for themselves and...

For too many people and communities around the world, the dominant agricultural model is causing economic hardship, the destruction of biological diversity, and the exploitation of earth’s ecological commons. It is a model based on the commodification of life. We...

As people who care about the planet and about those most vulnerable to hunger, we need to ask some serious questions: What is the most effective, ecological and humane way to feed the world? How can farmers sustain themselves, their...